Green is still the new black
19 November 2010
The increase in “green” marketing claims has continued in recent years across a range of products, from office supplies to household goods and even food.
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We may be living in a material world, but can Madonna claim “MATERIAL GIRL”?
18 November 2010
In her classic mid ‘80s hit, Madonna famously claimed that she is a “Material Girl”.
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Never Tear Us Apart: court battles over INXS fortune
15 November 2010
Most of us would know Australian rock band INXS for their hits “New Sensation” and “Need You Tonight” from the late ‘80s.
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I Gotta Feeling … that I’ve heard that somewhere before
12 November 2010
The Black Eyed Peas are a band well known to many people (and certainly this author) for a number of songs including “Where Is The Love?”, “Let’s Get This Party Started”, “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow”.
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Gang warfare just isn’t what it used to be…
10 November 2010
The Hells Angels motorcycle gang, sorry, make that “non-profit mutual benefit corporation” (according to their complaint), also names Saks (the operator of high-end department store Saks Fifth Avenue in New York) and Zappos.com (an online retailer owned by Amazon) as defendants.
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Vulgarians are consumers too, says Federal Court
5 November 2010
In the recent decision of Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Singtel Optus Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 1177, Justice Perram has held that the advertising and marketing for Optus’ broadband plans known as the “Think Bigger Plans” seriously misrepresented to broadband consumers that they would receive a certain amount of broadband for a specific price when in fact this was far from the case.
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Amazon.com’s Canadian patent may be just “one-click” away
1 November 2010
Amazon.com has won an important stage in a twelve-year battle in Canada over the patentability of its invention entitled “Method and System For Placing A Purchase Order Via A Communication Network”, which simplifies internet shopping by allowing consumers to buy things with a “single click” rather than having to proceed to a “check-out”.
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Consumer survey not misleading
29 October 2010
The Federal Court has dismissed an application by Specsavers regarding an independent consumer survey on optometrists.
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Bottle Wars – Titans clash in Coke / Pepsi dispute over shape mark
26 October 2010
Coca-Cola’s trade mark for its classic bottle shape has long been ‘the’ talisman example of how a shape can be registered if it is sufficiently distinctive.
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“The Adventures of Huck Finn and the Hundred Years’ Copyright”
26 October 2010
Locked away for over a century, Mark Twain’s autobiography will be published for the first time next month.
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